In the past month alone, FOUR senior researchers from Apple’s foundational models team have quit, all heading to Meta’s new Superintelligence lab.
This includes the team lead, who reportedly got a $200M+ offer to leave.
These are the people who built the models powering Siri and Apple Intelligence.
Now?
→ Apple’s best minds are walking
→ Meta is scooping them up with blank checks
→ Apple is quietly debating ditching in-house AI models altogether
→ Siri’s future may depend on OpenAI or Anthropic
If your core AI team defects right after launching “Apple Intelligence”…
Is it still your intelligence?
What happens when the platform war reaches the model layer?
